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it be amputation or disease we have no case made out. In all 
Peruvian vases where feet are represented they are easy to be recog- 
nized as such. ‘The accuracy in the rendering goes even so far 
that in some representations of persons with tucked-under legs the 
form of the feet is expressed on the bottom of the vase. That 
the Old Peruvians liked to find in their vessels the forms of persons 
affected with remarkable manifestations of disease is shown also in 
the Berlin collection, by the large number of them blind, one- 
eyed, with lop-sided jaws, etc. As to the finding places of these 
vases, they are unfortunately not safely established, the greatest part 
has the indication of Chimbote, and besides there is Trujillo and 
Chancay.”’ 
I point out, in conclusion, here that the influence of cold of the 
Andean heights might have had to do with the necessity of ampu- 
tation of feet. There was a great deal of barefoot walking in 
Incan climates, while the hands would be better clad. We must 
renounce, however, the giving of a positive judgment as to the 
mutilations of the feet of Old Peruvians. So far no other explana- 
tion has been found but a pathological one. 
Prof. Bandelier wrote me from Lake Titicaca, where he was 
engaged in explorations for the American Museum: ‘‘ All the 
Pachacamac remains, a few specimens perhaps excepted, which I 
cannot now remember, belong to the so-called Yunca (hot country) 
or coast Indian type of artifacts, and they are certainly anterior in 
date to 1532. Ido not wish to be understood to say that all the 
Pachacamac finds to be made, or made previously, are not post- 
Columbian ; but the site where I caused the excavations to be made 
and the depth at which the objects were taken out, point to the 
conclusion that my finds are indeed pre-Columbian, or at least with 
very few exceptions only. The human foot alone and in appear- 
ance amputated is not rare among coast pottery, and the Museum 
must have another one sent by me from Lambayeque, with its 
sandal perfectly normal as well as handsomely ornamented. I 
remember having ‘seen other specimens of the same description. 
But none of them were deformed as the Pachacamac foot is. 
‘¢ The deformed faces on the pottery are generally regarded as 
representations of syphilis, and I never heard leprosy mentioned in 
connection with them.” 
This is what I read of the ancient languages of Old Peruvians as 
written in their graves: There was never a migration of these dis- 
